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Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts (Paperback)
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Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts (Paperback)
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How did past communities view, understand and communicate their
pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In
recent years these questions have been approached through studies
of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and
artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of
objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for
these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of
veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects
of the past were an important part of many later societies that
encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or
rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. For the first
time, this volume brings together a range of case studies in which
objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated. It follows
a conference session at the Theoretical Archaeological Group in
Cardiff 2017, in which historians, archaeologists, heritage
professionals and commercial archaeologists gathered to discuss
this topic on a broad (pre)historical scale, highlighting
similarities and contrast in depositional practices and reactions
to relics of the past in different periods. Through case studies
spanning the Bronze Age through to the 18th century AD, this volume
presents new research demonstrating that the reappropriation of
these already old objects was not anomalous, but instead represents
a practice that recurs throughout (pre)history.
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